Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive

I can't play it through Day Four because there is a bomb that must be diffused that requires you to be able to differentiate red and green. I suppose I could maybe get a friend to do it for me, but I'm not all that into the mystery anyway. It's about Roswell aliens. It's hard to care. And the humor rarely lands. I'm not sure why these games are so fondly remembered. They are definitely on the lower end of the adventure game scale based on what I've played so far (Under a Killing Moon and this). Most of the game is running back and forth talking to the same four or five people over and over and over again about every new topic hoping it unlocks the next thing. One time I had to show a letter in a foreign script to a guy working in a diner, so he could tell me what language it was written in, then I had to go to a guy working in a pawn shop, ask about the language to be given a book of this dead language for beginners. In a world where they could hire a few more actors, why would I talk to either of these schmucks? Wouldn't it have made more sense for me to go to a library? Also the movement controls are really annoying, and there's some pixel hunting. Are there puzzles? Nothing too complicated that I've seen so far. If you want to play a good FMV game, I recommend Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within.